scholarly journals Selectivity and Market Timing Ability of Fund Managers: Comparative Analysis of Islamic and Conventional HSBC Saudi Mutual Funds

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zouaoui
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Performance Persistence ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Market Index ◽  
Good Market ◽  
Timing Ability ◽  
Better Than

This paper empirically compares the market timing, the stock selection and the performance persistence of Islamic and conventional HSBC Saudi mutual funds by using monthly returns from April 2011 to December 2018. The data was grouped into five portfolios based on geographical investment basis (locally, Arab, internationally) and Sharia compliance (Islamic and conventional). The empirical results indicate that Islamic funds underperformed conventional funds internationally but not locally. Findings suggest that the market selectivity skills of managers in the Islamic funds are better than the conventional funds. In addition, only the managers of Saudi conventional funds investing internationally have a good market timing skills, thus, they are able to beat the market index by predicting its movements and buying and selling accordingly. Furthermore, this study gives a brief idea about the performance persistence of HSBC Saudi funds. The results confirm existence of the persistence performance when the funds do not apply Sharia law and when they are instead focused internationally.

scholarly journals MANAGERIAL ABILITIES AND FACTOR INVESTMENT STYLE PERFORMANCES OF MALAYSIAN MUTUAL FUND MANAGERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Pick-Soon Ling ◽  
Ruzita Abdul-Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Investment Style ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Timing Ability ◽  
Stock Picking

Background and Purpose: Studies focusing on mutual fund managerial abilities and investment style strategies are still scarce in the literature. Thus, this study aims to provide new evidence and insights into the managerial abilities and investment style performances of Malaysian fund managers.   Methodology: A total of 444 Malaysian equity mutual funds (EMFs) were evaluated using Carhart’s model incorporated with Treynor-Mazuy (T-M) and Henriksson-Merton (H-M) market timing models for the study period, from January 1995 to December 2017.   Findings: Fund managers displayed superior stock selection skills with 32 percent and 43 percent of funds for T-M and H-M respectively, with perverse market timing ability which accounted for 39 percent and 42 percent of funds for T-M and H-M respectively. Perverse timing ability had reduced the superior stock-picking skills of fund managers. This suggests that the EMFs performance could further improve if respective fund managers perform better in market timing ability. The finding also indicates that size effect (SMB) and value effect (HML) play significant roles in investment style strategies, while results of momentum factor (WML) propose that Malaysian fund managers have followed the contrarian strategy.   Contributions: This study contributes in several ways especially in the literature of portfolio management as the evidence is obtained from the largest mutual funds sample size and the longest study period. Moreover, this study also used the highest frequency data to study the effects of market timing which were overlooked in previous studies.   Keywords: Adjusted carhart, Malaysian market, market timing, mutual fund, stock selection.   Cite as: Ling, P-S., & Abdul-Rahim, R. (2021). Managerial abilities and factor investment style performances of Malaysian mutual funds.  Journal of Nusantara Studies, 6(1), 118-135. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol6iss1pp118-135

Can mutual fund managers predict security prices to beat the market?The case of Greece during the debt crisis

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-62
Author(s):  
Drosos Koutsokostas ◽  
Spyros Papathanasiou ◽  
Nikolaos Eriotis
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Performance Persistence ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Index Funds ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Equity Mutual Funds ◽  
Term Performance

The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of Greek equity mutual funds, elaborating on stock selection in parallel with market timing measures, in comparison with the performance of ETFs and index funds for the period 01/24/2008-05/12/2017, and the short-term performance persistence of actively managed funds for the period 05/12/2015-05/12/2017. Using all domestic equity mutual funds at our disposal and daily data, the authors apply multi-factor models to estimate risk-adjusted returns and to evaluate the selectivity and market timing ability of fund managers. In order to investigate short-term performance persistence, the coexistence of stock selection and market timing strategy is allowed and a battery of parametric and nonparametric tests is implemented. Results show that actively managed mutual funds underperformed the market index, as well as passively managed ETFs and index funds, primarily due to the managers’ inability to time the market. Furthermore, a winner-picking strategy to outperform a-buy-the-market-and hold policy is questioned.

scholarly journals An Empirical Investigation of the Performance of Fund Managers in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
Sanaullah Sanaullah ◽  
Amna Noor ◽  
Salleh Khan ◽  
Muhammad Shahbaz Khan
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Timing Ability ◽  
Equity Funds ◽  
Manager Performance

This study aims to determine the stock selection ability and market timing ability of mutual fund managers, focusing on conventional funds and Islamic funds in Pakistan.  Although there has been significant growth in the number and assets of mutual funds in recent years, few studies measure the performance of mutual funds managers. The scarcity of existing literature motivates this study. In this study, two models are used to measure the stock selection and market timing on a sample of conventional mutual funds and Islamic mutual funds over 2010 and 2019 using annual returns. Overall, the results indicate that the performance study of conventional mutual funds and Islamic mutual funds indicates that manager performance is not superior in all three portfolios, i.e., conventional funds, Islamic funds, and overall funds in over sample period. This also indicates that both Conventional and Islamic fund managers do not outperform the market (KSE 100 index). Thus, there is a lack of market timing ability. Using Tranoy and mazuy and Jansen models found a lack of stock selection and market timing ability of mutual fund managers in Pakistani mutual funds. In this study, I have applied only two models to examine both the timing and selection ability of conventional and Islamic Pakistani equity funds. For future possibilities, the study suggests adopting several methods and approaches like the TMFF3 model and HM-FF3 model, making the study more comprehensive and accurate than this research.

scholarly journals Market Timing and Stock Selection Ability of Mutual Funds in India: An Empirical Investigation

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soumya Guha Deb ◽  
Ashok Banerjee ◽  
B B Chakrabarti
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Mutual Fund Managers ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Timing Ability

Evaluation of performance of mutual funds and identification of successful fund managers are of great interest to both investors and academicians. Two possible methods that are presumed to be used by fund managers for generating superior performance are identified as: Market timing: Market timing skills imply assessing correctly the direction of the market, whether bull or bear, and positioning their portfolios accordingly. Stock selection: Stock selection skills involve micro forecasting, which generally forecasts price movements of individual stocks relative to stocks and identification of individual stocks that are under-or over-valued relative to equities in general. The two pioneering works in this field is by Treynor Mazuy( 1966) and Henriksson Merton ( 1981). They developed two different models for testing the market timing and stock selection abilities of the fund managers but found little evidence of timing by the fund managers in their samples. Most of the other works mentioned in the paper have used these two models (which we name as traditional/unconditional models) or slight variations of the same for testing market timing and stock selection abilities of the fund managers. Person and Scadt (1996) modified the classical performance measures (of timing and stock selection ability) to take account of well-known information variables like interest rate, market dividend yield, etc. They termed it as ‘conditional approach’ of measuring mutual fund performance and claimed that conditioning on public information controls for biases in traditional market timing and stock selection models. Traditional models have taken the view that ‘any information’ correlated with the future market returns is superior information; in other words, they are unconditional models. Person and Scadt's approach used basically the same simplifying assumptions as the traditional models but they assumed, in addition, semi-strong form of market efficiency. The idea was to distinguish between market timing based on public information from market timing information that is superior to the lagged publicly available information variables. Although the academic literature on stock selection and market timing ability of mutual fund managers is rich and spans several decades, not many studies exist on this issue using emerging market data. This paper attempts to find the stock selection and market timing abilities of the Indian mutual fund managers using unconditional as well as conditional approaches. With a sample of 96 Indian mutual fund schemes, a lack of market timing ability and presence of stock selection ability were observed among the Indian funds managers in both unconditional as well as conditional approaches. A pooled regression was carried out for various categories of funds as well as for the entire sample, which also showed a lack of market timing abilities and presence of stock selection abilities.

scholarly journals Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from India

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 11714-11723
Keyword(s):  
Portfolio Management ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
Fund Performance ◽  
Mutual Fund Performance ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Multifactor Models ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Timing Ability

We empirically examine fund managers’ stock selection and market timing ability using various risk-adjusted measures such as CAPM and multifactor models of FamaFrench (1993) and Carhart (1997) to gauge mutual fund performance in India. The sample consists of 183 actively managed equity-oriented funds and covers the period from April 2000 to March 2018. The study, on the whole, documents some evidence of positive and significant stock selection ability but fails to yield any notable evidence of market timing ability of fund managers. Our results are robust according to various riskadjusted performance evaluation techniques, sub-period analysis, excluding the crisis period and at the individual fund level. The findings of our study are in line with the previous studies that report limited selectivity skill and market timing ability among fund managers. The main implication of the study is that active portfolio management may not be very rewarding in comparison to a passive investment strategy.

scholarly journals Measuring the selectivity and market timing performance of Islamic mutual funds in the KSA

Accounting ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1067-1072
Author(s):  
Habib Hasnaoui ◽  
Ibrahim Fatnassi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Investment Risk ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Timing Ability ◽  
Investment Patterns

This paper examines the selectivity and market timing abilities of Islamic fund managers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), since the empirical research has yet to explore the profitability and investment risk factors involved. We use a uniquely large set of data for 134 Islamic funds for a period from June 2002 to December 2019, and this was free from any survival bias. We found that Islamic fund managers in the KSA demonstrated good selectivity skills but no market timing ability. We also found that Islamic fund managers in the KSA tend to select companies with aggressive investment patterns despite their low profitability.

scholarly journals A comparative study on domestic and foreign equity funds in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
I Gst Ngr Putu Adi Suartawan ◽  
Luh Gede Sri Artini
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Timing Ability ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Equity Funds ◽  
Better Than

The aim of this study is to analyze and compare the performance between domestic and foreign equity funds in Indonesia seen from the Treynor index, market timing, and stock selection ability. The population of this study is all equity funds registered in OJK (Financial Services Authority) in Indonesia, with a sample of 38 domestic equity funds and 25 foreign equity funds during the 2016-2018 period. The samples were collected by using a nonprobability sampling method with a purposive sampling technique. Data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test. The results of this study show that the performance of foreign equity funds is better than the domestic equity funds seen from the Treynor index. The market timing ability of foreign equity funds is better than domestic equity funds. The stock selection ability of domestic equity funds is better than foreign equity funds. The practical implication of this study for investors and capital market players is to provide empirical evidence that there is a significant difference between the domestic and foreign equity funds performance in Indonesia, that can be considered in investment strategies. For investment companies that manage equity funds can be a reference to performance improvement, especially for negative performance.

scholarly journals PERFORMANCE OF SHARIAH VERSUS CONVENTIONAL FUNDS: LESSONS FROM EMERGING MARKETS

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-218
Author(s):  
Ruzita Abdul-Rahim ◽  
Aisyah Abdul-Rahman ◽  
Pick-Soon Ling
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
Merton Model ◽  
Cross Country

This study compares the performance of Shariah and conventional mutual funds in emerging markets. The performance of 833 Shariah and conventional funds in 6 emerging markets from 2000 to 2015 was analyzed. We analyzed the Sharpe index, Treynor index, and Jensen’s alpha to compare the performance of Shariah and conventional funds. Jensen's alpha results conform to those of Sharpe’s in indicating that Shariah funds slightly outperform their conventional counterparts particularly in the case of Malaysia, Pakistan, and South Africa. Conventional funds perform exceptionally well in Egypt. Further investigation using the Henriksson–Merton model shows that fund managers’ performance relies nearly completely on their stock selection skills because they have either inferior or ineffective ability in timing the market. This study is the first cross-country attempt to compare the performance of Shariah and conventional funds in emerging markets in terms of risk-adjusted returns, security selectivity, and market timing capability.   Keywords: Emerging markets, Jensen’s alpha, mutual funds, risk-adjusted performances, Shariah mutual funds   Cite as:   Abdul-Rahim, R. Abdul-Rahman, A., & Ling, P-S. (2019). Performance of Shariah versus conventional funds: Lessons from emerging markets.  Journal of Nusantara Studies, 4(2), 193-218. http://dx.doi.org/10.24200/jonus.vol4iss2pp193-218

ANALISIS DATA PANEL PADA KINERJA REKSADANA SAHAM

Jurnal Varian ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
I Gede Agus Astapa ◽  
Gede Suwardika ◽  
I Ketut Putu Suniantara
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Random Effects ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Risk Model ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Market Timing ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Timing Ability ◽  
Level Of Risk

Mutual funds is another investment opportunity with a more measurable risk as well as return high enough with enough capital is affordable for the community. Mutual fund performance can be measured by several indicators.. Modeling the performance of mutual funds modeled by regression of the data panel. The regression model estimation data panel will do with the three approaches, namely the approach of common effect, fixed effects and random effects. This research purpose to know the performance of mutual funds from stock selection skill variable influences, market timing ability and level of risk with the use of panel data analysis. The results shows that the Fund's performance is affected by the stock selection skill, market timing ability, and the level of risk. Model the right approach to model the performance of mutual funds by using a random effects model.

Market timing and selectivity performance of socially responsible funds

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Praveen K. Das ◽  
S. P. Uma Rao
Keyword(s):  
Market Timing ◽  
Stock Selection ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fund Managers ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Long Term Study ◽  
Timing Ability ◽  
Security Selection ◽  
Almost All

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the market timing and stock selection abilities of socially responsible (SR) mutual funds. Some high-profile SR fund managers try to embrace market timing and security selection plans to add value to the performance. Market timing relies on forecasting the equity market and shifting assets into or out of the market in anticipation of market movements. The selectivity measure assesses fund managers ability to select undervalued securities. Furthermore, the authors examine whether fund characteristics play any role in market timing and security selection ability. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use Treynor and Mazuy's’ (1966) and Henriksson and Mertons’ (1981) model to examine the market timing and security selection ability. The study uses a decade of monthly returns to examine the skills of fund managers in the SR industry for the period from July 2002 to June 2012. Findings – The main findings are that the managers – though not very successful – do indulge in stock selection and market timing activities. It was found that 48 funds have positive statistically significant stock selectivity coefficients and only a very small number of five funds with positive statistically significant market timing coefficients. Results suggest that there is a trade-off between the two activities. It was found that aggressive funds, funds with higher growth rate and riskier funds are more likely to engage in market timing rather than stock selection. Practical implications – The implication is that SR managers cannot achieve superior stock selection and market timing ability simultaneously. Risk-averting investors in SR funds expect SR behavior from the managers. This means that managers of SR funds, with very little evidence of market timing ability, may have to refrain from market timing of SR funds. Originality/value – Using a Morningstar dataset comprising almost all SR funds in existence as of June 2012, this is probably the most exhaustive long-term study to date on market timing and stock selection abilities of SR fund managers.

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